Soil Science, Sedimentology

Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary...

This book presents the accumulated data and current state of geological knowledge on Chinas main shale gas fields. It addresses a broad range of to...

This edited book addresses various aspects of sustainable land management, including existing policy norms and indigenous knowledge. It focuses on ...

This work is intended for advanced readers interested in methods of sustainable land management - the prevention and control of land degradation. I...

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change. This book aims to provide new biotechn...

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions...

The aim of this Ph.D. was to develop a technology for the remediation of seleniferous soils/sediments and to explore microbial reduction of seleniu...

Nowadays, demands on modern civil engineering structures require not only safe technical solutions, but also additional approaches, involving ecolo...

The manufacture of plastic as well as its indiscriminate disposal and destruction by incineration pollutes atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ec...

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input whil...

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earths forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher leve...

Soil Biology is a state-of-the art review focusing on the linkage between biological processes that occur in the soil and their impact on soil qual...

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also impro...

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on problems and their management by select...

Pesticide Interactions in Crop Production: Beneficial and Deleterious Effects evaluates the effects of pesticides on plants by exploring the physic...

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline. Unfortunately, wides...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes o...

The book is intended for practicing engineers in the oil industry, researchers, and graduate students interested in designing and simulating offsho...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...